Mormon passage
Subtitle: a missionary chronicle
By: Gary Shepherd and Gordon Shepherd.
Contributors: Shepherd, Gordon, 1943-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Shepherd, Gary, 1943-; Shepherd, Gordon, 1943-; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Missions; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Missions -- Mexico; Mormon Church -- Missions; Mormon missionaries -- United States -- Biography; Mormon Church -- Missions -- Mexico
Description: This is the first book to present detailed, first-person accounts of the modern Mormon missionary experience. Armed with little more than youthful vigor and firmly held religious convictions, twins Gary and Gordon Shepherd left their home in Salt Lake City in 1964 for two years as missionaries in Mexico. Mormon Passage is one result of that experience, a combination of diaries and field notes kept by the two during their mission and later sociological analyses of their experiences.

The brothers' goal is to help readers understand the consequences of the missionary experience for the vitality of Mormon religious life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-442) and index.